Research Article
Adherence to Medications after Hospital Discharge in the Elderly
Table 2
Spearman’s rank correlation for patient demographics and types of medication discrepancies.
| Medication discrepancy | Age | Length of stay | Number of diagnoses | Number of discharge medications |
| Patients taking additional prescription medications | | | | | Patients omitting prescription medications | −0.46 | | | | Patients taking the wrong dose | | | | | Patients taking the wrong frequency | | | | | Patients taking additional nonprescription medication | | | | | Patients omitting nonprescription medication | | | | |
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